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OverviewLining the streets inside the city's gates, clustered in its centre, and thinly scattered among its back quarters were Augsberg's taverns and drinking rooms. These institutions ranged from the poorly lit rooms of backstreet wine sellers to the elaborate marble halls frequented by society's most privileged members. Urban drinking rooms provided more than food, drink and lodging for their guests. They also conferred upon their visitors a sense of social identity commensurate with their status. Like all German cities, Augsberg during the 16th and 17th centuries had a history shaped by the political events attending the Reformation, the post-Reformation and the Thirty Years' War; its social and political character was also reflected and supported by its public and private drinking rooms. In """"Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany"""", Ann Tlusty examines the social and cultural functions served by drinking and tavern life in Germany between 1500 and 1700, and she challenges existing theories about urban identity, sociability and power. Through her reconstruction of the social history of Augsberg, from beggars to council members, Tlusty also sheds light on such diverse topics as social ritual, gender and household relations, medical practice, and the concerns of civic leaders with public health and poverty. Drunkenness, duelling and other forms of tavern comportment that may appear """"disorderly"""" to us today turn out to be the inevitable, even desirable result of a society functioning according to its own rules. Full Product DetailsAuthor: B.Ann TlustyPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780813920450ISBN 10: 0813920450 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 30 July 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example. --Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.--Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.--Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.--Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe <p>This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearchedarea, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. AnnTlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive researchnever swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote andexample.--Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipusand the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early ModernEurope This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example.--Lyndal RoperRoyal HollowayUniversity of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. Ann Tlusty has a deep knowledge of early modern Augsburg, yet her impressive research never swamps the reader. Throughout she makes vivid use of anecdote and example. --Lyndal Roper, Royal Holloway, University of London, author of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe Author InformationB. Ann Tlusty is Associate Professor of History at Bucknell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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